Wyoming Trivia (Renamed) (Casper, Cody, Rawlins: cabinet, manufactured, interiors)

[CptnRn]

Thanks ElkHunter, that was an interesting question.

Next Question: Wyoming has 23 counties. Where are the following Wyoming counties? Carter County, Hanover County and Pease County.

[Poletop]

Never new this.. Excellent question!

"Three counties were renamed after their creation. Carter County was renamed Sweetwater County on December 1, 1869. Hanover County existed for seven days in 1911 before it was renamed Washakie County. Pease County, formed in 1875, was renamed Johnson County in 1879."

[CptnRn]

You got it Poletop! Good Job. I was worried no one would figure it out. Your turn!

[Poletop]

Thanks CptRn.....Rock Springs was home to a military installation in the late 1800's. What was its name, and why was it established?

[Poletop]

Federal Troops on South Front Street, Rock Springs, 1885.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Poletop

Thanks CptRn.....Rock Springs was home to a military installation in the late 1800's. What was its name, and why was it established?

Camp Pilot Butte is located on the north bank of Bitter Creek, in the northwest part of the city.

The Rock Springs massacre (also known as the Rock Springs Riot) occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming, in Sweetwater County. The riot, between Chinese immigrant miners and white immigrant miners, was the result of racial tensions and an ongoing labor dispute over the Union Pacific Coal Department's policy of paying Chinese miners lower wages than white miners. This policy caused the Chinese to be hired over the white miners, which further angered the white miners and contributed to the riot.

As a result, two companies of the United States Army's 7th Infantry arrived on September 5, 1885. One company, under the command of a Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, was stationed in Evanston, Wyoming; the other, under a Colonel Chipman, was stationed in Rock Springs. At Camp Murray, Utah Territory, a Colonel Alexander McDowell McCook was ordered to augment the garrison sent to Wyoming with six more companies.[1] On September 9, 1885, one week after the massacre, six companies of soldiers arrived in Wyoming. Four of the six companies then escorted the Chinese back to Rock Springs.[1] Once back in Rock Springs, the Chinese laborers found scorched tracts of land where their homes once stood. The mining company had buried only a few dead; others remained lying in the open, mangled, decomposing, and partially eaten by dogs, hogs, or other animals

[Poletop]

Thanks Elkhunter... I bet you had to do a little research on that one!! Good Job.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Poletop

Thanks Elkhunter... I bet you had to do a little research on that one!! Good Job.

I did. That was an outstanding question. I remembered the Chinese Masacre and I got to wondering if they had resolved that with Military. Thanks.

In what year did lightning spark a series of forest fires in Yellowstone National Park in May, with a hot summer later allowing flames to sweep across some 793,000 acres, more than one third of the park?. On Sept. 11, the season’s first snow began to calm the flames, but the fires weren’t extinguished until two months later.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

In what year did lightning spark a series of forest fires in Yellowstone National Park in May, with a hot summer later allowing flames to sweep across some 793,000 acres, more than one third of the park?. On Sept. 11, the season’s first snow began to calm the flames, but the fires weren’t extinguished until two months later.

1988

Yellowstone's Year Of Fire--1988
A total of 248 fires started in greater Yellowstone in 1988; 50 of those were in Yellowstone National Park. Despite widespread misconceptions that all fires were initially allowed to burn, only 31 of the total were; 28 of these began inside the park. In the end, 7 major fires were responsible for more than 95% of the burned acreage. Five of those fires were ignited outside the park, and 3 of them were human-caused fires that firefighters attempted to control from the beginning. More than 25,000 firefighters, as many as 9000 at one time, attacked Yellowstone fires in 1988, at a total cost of about $120 million. Thankfully, the fires killed no park visitors and no nearby residents. Outside the park, two firefighters were killed, one by a falling tree and one while piloting a plane transporting other personnel.
Ecosystem wide, about 1.2 million acres was scorched; 793,000 (about 36%) of the park’s 2,221,800 acres were burned. Sixty-seven structures were destroyed, including 18 cabins used by employees and guests and one backcountry patrol cabin in Yellowstone. Estimated property damage totaled more than $3 million. About 665 miles of hand-cut fireline and 137 miles of bulldozer lines, including 32 miles in the park, needed some rehabilitation, along with the remnants of fire camps and helicopter-landing spots. Surveys found that 345 dead elk (of an estimated 40,000-50,000), 36 deer, 12 moose, 6 black bears, and 9 bison died in greater Yellowstone as a direct result of the fires; 2 radio-collared grizzly bears were missing and were presumed to have been killed, (although one turned up alive and well several years later).

Good question ElkHunter, I vaguely remember hearing of those fires and I'm glad to read about how few wild animals were killed in them.

[CptnRn]

I'm pretty sure that was correct so here is another question.

Where, where & who invented the sheep wagon?